That’s Robin Marty‘s warning for anyone who cares about reproductive rights in America or anyone who just pretends to care about them to impress their Twitter followers.

This may have been the worst week for non-billionaires since Trump became president and it’s no accident. We’re witnessing the culmination of a 50-year-long plot to roll back the advances of the last half century and destroy the labor movement that helped make them possible. Anthony Kennedy’s strange connections to the Trump family and the perfect timing of his resignation sparked a wave of interest in a vast conspiracy. But the worst collusion always happens right in front of our eyes. We’re facing the end of our basic rights as we found them. And we’re going to have to rebuild our politics if we’re going to be able to compete with a relentless right that has figured out how to turn government into a multilevel marketing scheme where only the rich get the calls answered and their promises kept.

Robin Marty is a reporter who covers abortion rights and the attacks on a woman’s right to safe legal abortion. She is the author of Crow After Roe, that details how eleven states have passed anti-abortion laws explicitly written to provoke a repeal of Roe v. Wade.

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In our interview with Robin, she mentioned a U.S. Supreme Court decision that essentially says that police can’t interfere with a person – even to act on that person committing a crime – while that person is praying. It starts on page 6. Robin had this to say to us about it off-air:

This is what we think is going to be used to end the FACE act – as long as the antis are in continual prayer they can’t be removed. So they’ll stay in front of the doors or inside the clinics until they are shut down. And you have folk in Michigan already trying it.

The Bad:
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court made America a “Right to Freeload” nation by deciding the Janus v. AFSCME case in favor of the corporations. In his piece at The New York Times — Supreme Court Labor Decision Wasn’t Just a Loss for Unions — Noam Scheiber tells us that this doesn’t just impact unionized workers:

The Supreme Court decision striking down mandatory union fees for government workers was not only a blow to unions. It will also hit hard at a vast network of groups dedicated to advancing liberal policies and candidates.

Some of these groups work for immigrants and civil rights; others produce economic research; still others turn out voters or run ads in Democratic campaigns. Together, they have benefited from tens of millions of dollars a year from public-sector unions — funding now in jeopardy because of the prospective decline in union revenue.

“If the progressive movement is a navy, they’re trying to take out our aircraft carriers,” said Ben Wikler, Washington director of the liberal activist group MoveOn.org.

The Shrugly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯:
Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth told CNN’s State of the Union, that Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s trouncing of a Democratic Party stalwart, Joe Crowley, isn’t likely to happen in other areas like the Midwest. “Coming from a Midwestern state, I think you need to be able to talk to the industrial Midwest,” she said. “You need to listen to the people there in order to win an election nationwide.”

Ocasio-Cortez herself doesn’t necessarily disagree. “Can everyone run the way that I run? No, because I’m running like a rep. from the Bronx with Rikers Island in the district, whose community is half immigrants,” she told Salon. “Not everyone can do the things that I can do because not everyone is representing a community like my community. But, I think all in all, some shade of what we’re doing can be done everywhere in America.”

GOTMFV Hack-of-the-Week
Put together a Voters Guide for the General Election which gives people an easy way to connect with voters at their doors in a low-stress situation while helping Democratic candidates.

Washtenaw County’s 2016 Voters Guide is HERE. (NOTE: The actual Voters Guide was much higher quality and printed on newsprint to stand out from other campaign literature voters received.)

FLINT UPDATE
Despite assurances from the state government and Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration, Flint schools will be providing bottled water for students when school opens in September.

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Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has admitted to knowing about the poisoning of Flint's drinking water with lead. Despite this, there are STILL Flint residents who cannot drink their tap water without the use of a water filter.

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Mitchell Robinson is associate professor and chair of music education at Michigan State University. His research is focused on music education and education policy. Follow him on Facebook HERE and Twitter at @mrobmsu. His own blog is at MitchellRobinson.net.

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Tawana “Honeycomb” Petty is a mother, social justice organizer, youth advocate, poet and author. She was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan and is intricately involved in water rights, digital justice and visionary organizing work in Detroit. You can learn more about Tawana "Honeycomb" Petty by visiting honeycombthepoet.com. Follow her on Twitter at @CombsThePoet.

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